Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
ALVIN TOFFLERChange is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
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There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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The political technology of the Industrial age is no longer appropriate technology for the new civilization taking form around us. Our politics are obsolete.
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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
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Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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